they presumed stocks have not done well because the economy is not the wall. stocks because of the bernanke have done extremely well. he said a couple of years ago, i'm doing this qe stuff that he is talking about to get stocks of. if i get stocks of people feel better. some prices go up. if they feel more they will buy more and build things that we will have more jobs. congress is not doing it. the administration is not doing it, someone has to. that has been helping stocks. his most recent round of stuff, even his own talking as you refer to today, i don't think it's going to work. who knows? lou: and sort of it seems a bit cavalier that the fed presidents is holding forth, you know, the views, but that's fine. also, one can accuse him of being dishonest because there is a reason to question whether it will work because we have never done this before. never had a fed chairman this adventuress. also at the same time it begs a question, how much trouble are we in? shortly ben bernanke would not have taken this extraordinary and unprecedented step of monetary e